Please write on this form or copy it and send a copy of your personal form to me. If you write on this form ID who you are. Using a single unique color of font for all of your responses would be helpful if you choose to edit this form.

1. What type and size of telescope do you own?
  • Orion SkyQuest 10inch (AA)
  • Zhumell Z8, Meade 3 inch Refractor(RG)
  • Zhumell Z8, Meade Quasar DS114, Celestron 3" Mini-Dob(CK)
  • Zhumell Z8 My eyes(ZK)

1a. What accessories such as eye pieces and filters do u have. BE SPECIFIC SIZE AND EVERYTHING!!
  • 2 inch 30mm zhumell eyepiece, a 1.25 inch 9mm zhumell eyepiece, also 5 Celestron 1.25 inch 6mm, 8mm, 13mm, 17mm, and 32mm eyepieces, a celestron 1.25 inch 2x barlow. In filters I have 7 celestron 1.25 inch filters, Red #25, Green #58, Blue #80a, Deep Yellow #12, Orange #21, Light Green #56 and zero density. also a zhumell 1.25 inch zero density filter, everything listed plus a red light and a pocket sky atlas fit inside my Celestron case.(RG)
  • EPs and filters listed in Observing logs. (CK)


2. What type of camera do you own? If more than one, list all.
  • N/A (AA)
  • Sony PC-73 4.1 Mp (can be borrowed from chris) (RG)
  • Sony a230 10.2 Mp (CK)
  • Na(ZK)

3. What home computer do you use? (Type and operating system)
  • Acer Aspire5534 Windows Vista (AA)
  • Windows vista Compaq presario CQ50 (RG)
  • Custom built desktop (on Windos XP 32) (CK)
  • Macbook Pro (ZK)

4. What types of imaging software and astronomy software do you have on your computer? List all programs.
  • Gimp 2, MaxIm DL Pro 4, Photoshop, Lightroom, Bibble, SalsaJ (AA)
  • Gimp 2.6 MaxIm DL 4, SalsaJ, Registax 6, Bibble (Trial), MS Paint, Photoshop [Trial] (RG)
  • Gimp 2.6, MS paint, SalsaJ, Registax 6 (CK)
  • Gimp SalsaJ Lykenos Keith Image stacker (ZK)

5. For this quarter, I would like you to accomplish, at a minimum, processing one image of each of these targets listed below. I will search my image files for the targets you list to see if I have of these for you to work with and send them to you via Dropbox once you set up one. Please tell me which target you would like in the starred categories:

-the Moon


-a planet (Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, Mars)
  • Saturn (AA)
  • Jupiter (RG)
  • Mars (CK) (Kinda done, for the moment)
  • Jupiter (ZK)
-a nebula
  • M78 (AA)
  • NGC 7293[caldwell 63] (RG)
  • M97 (CK)
  • M42+ Hubble's variable+ Thors Helmet +(ZK)
- a galaxy
  • M31 (AA)
  • M104 (RG)
  • M81+M83 (CK) (M81 done, M83 WIP)
  • NGC 474, NGC 7331 (ZK)
- a star cluster or grouping
  • M44 (AA)
  • [caldwell 84] Omega Centari (RG)
  • M13 (CK)
  • M41 M37+(ZK)

- one image that YOU take through a telescope
  • M42 (CK)
  • the Moon (RG)



-other (this could be a sky scene, such as a planetary conjunction or a moonrise, a comet, an aurora, a constellation, or the Sun through one of the solar telescopes we have at school)
  • Milky Way over houses+Moon-ring (CK)
  • constellation (ZK)
  • conjunction of planets (AA)


- one image that you acquire through mining an internet archive
Crab Nebula.tif(AA)
HorseHead Nebula{see photos page}(RG)


As soon as I get your responses to the 4 starred items above, I will dig through my files and send images to your dropbox.